Exclusive: American rugby union is going under the doc series spotlight.
The sport’s North American professional league, Major League Rugby (Mlr), has struck a deal with indie film financier and producer Goldfinch to produce an all-access, multi-year series that’s been billed as an “unprecedented ten-year commitment.” This will chronicle the sport’s growth and development in the U.S.
Filming on the first season, Stars, Stripes and Scrums: The American Rugby Journey (working title) is underway and will focus on the Chicago Hounds team, while also exploring the sport at all levels across the States.
All-access sports team docs have been one of the big trends in unscripted over recent years, with international rugby union featured in Netflix’s Six Nations: Full Contact last year and the English league the subject of Prime Video’s Mud, Sweat and Tears: Premiership Rugby in October.
In the U.S., where American football is king,...
The sport’s North American professional league, Major League Rugby (Mlr), has struck a deal with indie film financier and producer Goldfinch to produce an all-access, multi-year series that’s been billed as an “unprecedented ten-year commitment.” This will chronicle the sport’s growth and development in the U.S.
Filming on the first season, Stars, Stripes and Scrums: The American Rugby Journey (working title) is underway and will focus on the Chicago Hounds team, while also exploring the sport at all levels across the States.
All-access sports team docs have been one of the big trends in unscripted over recent years, with international rugby union featured in Netflix’s Six Nations: Full Contact last year and the English league the subject of Prime Video’s Mud, Sweat and Tears: Premiership Rugby in October.
In the U.S., where American football is king,...
- 3/4/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Concourse Media, the sales and distribution banner led by Matthew Shreder, is teaming with Goldfinch on its already-established genre label The Number 44.
Concourse will come aboard as sales partner for a five-picture slate, which is fully financed with production already completed on two films and three more slated for this year. Concourse is also helping develop and produce.
The auteur-driven genre production label is focused on horror, thriller and sci-fi projects and was co-founded by award-winning producer and director Ben Charles Edwards (“The Wheels of Heaven”) alongside Phil McKenzie (“Quant”) and Kirsty Bell (“A Bird Flew In”).
The first film to be launched for sales in the series, “I’ll Play Mother,” recently finished post-production and stars Susanne Wuest (“Goodnight Mummy”), Jo Martin and Shubham Saraf (“A Suitable Boy”). Brad Watson (“The Siege”) directs from a screenplay by Libby Adam, based on an original story by Charles Edwards.
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Concourse will come aboard as sales partner for a five-picture slate, which is fully financed with production already completed on two films and three more slated for this year. Concourse is also helping develop and produce.
The auteur-driven genre production label is focused on horror, thriller and sci-fi projects and was co-founded by award-winning producer and director Ben Charles Edwards (“The Wheels of Heaven”) alongside Phil McKenzie (“Quant”) and Kirsty Bell (“A Bird Flew In”).
The first film to be launched for sales in the series, “I’ll Play Mother,” recently finished post-production and stars Susanne Wuest (“Goodnight Mummy”), Jo Martin and Shubham Saraf (“A Suitable Boy”). Brad Watson (“The Siege”) directs from a screenplay by Libby Adam, based on an original story by Charles Edwards.
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- 2/12/2024
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Asia Argento (“The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things”), Frances Barber (“A Bird Flew In”), Tamer Hassan (“The Football Factory”), Laura Whitmore (“Sadhbh”) and child actor Erin Ainsworth have joined the cast of “A Mother for an Hour.”
The film, which is being directed by Giga Agladze, follows the story of a woman who poses as the lost mother of a dying child and discovers through this act a world of deceit and violence.
Agladze’s most recent movie is surrealistic drama “The Other Me” (2022), starring Jim Sturgess and Andrea Pejic, executive produced by David Lynch.
“A Mother for an Hour” is being produced by Kirsty Bell, Goldfinch CEO and co-founder of The Number 44, and Ben Charles Edwards, also a co-founder of The Number 44. The executive producers are Phil McKenzie and David Kereselidze. It is shooting in the North of England, predominantly in Newcastle, Hartlepool and surrounding areas.
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The film, which is being directed by Giga Agladze, follows the story of a woman who poses as the lost mother of a dying child and discovers through this act a world of deceit and violence.
Agladze’s most recent movie is surrealistic drama “The Other Me” (2022), starring Jim Sturgess and Andrea Pejic, executive produced by David Lynch.
“A Mother for an Hour” is being produced by Kirsty Bell, Goldfinch CEO and co-founder of The Number 44, and Ben Charles Edwards, also a co-founder of The Number 44. The executive producers are Phil McKenzie and David Kereselidze. It is shooting in the North of England, predominantly in Newcastle, Hartlepool and surrounding areas.
Production...
- 11/6/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Cameras have started rolling on the psychological horror pic I’ll Play Mother from The Number 44, the UK-based production house co-founded by filmmaker Ben Charles Edwards (A Bird Flew In) alongside Phil McKenzie (Quant) and Kirsty Bell (A Bird Flew In).
The film stars Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mummy), Jo Martin, and Shubham Saraf (A Suitable Boy), with Brad Watson (The Siege) directing from a screenplay by Libby Adam.
Billed as a “twisted psychological horror about the relentless and unending paranoia of parenthood,” the film follows two children who are placed into the care system after the death of their birth mother. At this point, they realize there is something sinister at play.
The full synopsis reads: Michelle (Susanne Wuest) and Cyrus (Shubham Saraf) have spent the past two years having every minute detail of their personal lives inspected, dissected, and judged. At last, they...
The film stars Susanne Wuest (Goodnight Mummy), Jo Martin, and Shubham Saraf (A Suitable Boy), with Brad Watson (The Siege) directing from a screenplay by Libby Adam.
Billed as a “twisted psychological horror about the relentless and unending paranoia of parenthood,” the film follows two children who are placed into the care system after the death of their birth mother. At this point, they realize there is something sinister at play.
The full synopsis reads: Michelle (Susanne Wuest) and Cyrus (Shubham Saraf) have spent the past two years having every minute detail of their personal lives inspected, dissected, and judged. At last, they...
- 4/17/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“House of Sand and Fog” director Vadim Perelman has signed on to direct “The House with No Walls,” a docu-series examining the mystery surrounding the 2010 death of eccentric millionaire John Bender in Costa Rica.
The four-part series hails from Former Prodigy Media, the production company headed by “Brady Bunch” alumnus Christopher Knight and producer Phil Viardo. “House with No Walls” is based on an upcoming podcast about the Bender story, “Hell in Heaven,” from Blanchard House. The project has been developed with Selectors, a London-based IP incubator run by journalist William Ralston with backing from financier Goldfinch.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled that our collab with Selectors and Blanchard House on this documentary will now be masterfully led by such a talented and accomplished director as Vadim Perelman,” said Viardo.
“When we found this story, we were instantly hooked and began to explore the best possible way to tell it,...
The four-part series hails from Former Prodigy Media, the production company headed by “Brady Bunch” alumnus Christopher Knight and producer Phil Viardo. “House with No Walls” is based on an upcoming podcast about the Bender story, “Hell in Heaven,” from Blanchard House. The project has been developed with Selectors, a London-based IP incubator run by journalist William Ralston with backing from financier Goldfinch.
“We couldn’t be more thrilled that our collab with Selectors and Blanchard House on this documentary will now be masterfully led by such a talented and accomplished director as Vadim Perelman,” said Viardo.
“When we found this story, we were instantly hooked and began to explore the best possible way to tell it,...
- 3/31/2023
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Disgraced crypto entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried is to be profiled in a documentary feature for web3 streaming platform Myco.
Produced by Decrypt Studios, the as-yet-untitled doc will chart the rise and fall of the Ftx Founder once worth 24B who was arrested in The Bahamas earlier this week for “financial offences.”
Airing next year, the feature will include interview footage of Bankman-Fried as well as key Ftx executives and rival Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao, whose single tweet was the beginning of the end for Ftx and its sister company Almeda. The documentary will also chart the wider market impacts of the collapse of Ftx.
The scandal has already attracted the interest of the Russo Brothers, who are making an eight-part limited series on Ftx for Amazon with Hunters creator David Weil.
The doc “shows our ambition as a content business to back ambitious factual storytelling from top tier partners,” according to Myco Cco Phil McKenzie.
Produced by Decrypt Studios, the as-yet-untitled doc will chart the rise and fall of the Ftx Founder once worth 24B who was arrested in The Bahamas earlier this week for “financial offences.”
Airing next year, the feature will include interview footage of Bankman-Fried as well as key Ftx executives and rival Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao, whose single tweet was the beginning of the end for Ftx and its sister company Almeda. The documentary will also chart the wider market impacts of the collapse of Ftx.
The scandal has already attracted the interest of the Russo Brothers, who are making an eight-part limited series on Ftx for Amazon with Hunters creator David Weil.
The doc “shows our ambition as a content business to back ambitious factual storytelling from top tier partners,” according to Myco Cco Phil McKenzie.
- 12/15/2022
- by Max Goldbart and Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UK-Asian co-production funding specialist The Bridge has entered into an innovative first-look agreement with Web3 video streaming platform Myco.
The deal will see The Bridge sourcing distribution and sales deals and co-production and funding partners from the Southeast Asia region for Myco’s original shows. In return Myco will get a ‘first look’ on commissioning, acquiring, funding or co-producing content The Bridge sources from the same region.
Additionally, Myco, previously known as MContent, and The Bridge will jointly develop a slate of projects sourced from talent and companies in Southeast Asia. Myco will ringfence and allocate, in editorial partnership with The Bridge, a development fund of 100,000 into IP and projects signed to the slate. The aim is to deliver 3-5 original productions per year.
Myco bills itself as a Web3 video streaming, funding, production and distribution platform, while The Bridge has forged a reputation for building co-productions between Western...
The deal will see The Bridge sourcing distribution and sales deals and co-production and funding partners from the Southeast Asia region for Myco’s original shows. In return Myco will get a ‘first look’ on commissioning, acquiring, funding or co-producing content The Bridge sources from the same region.
Additionally, Myco, previously known as MContent, and The Bridge will jointly develop a slate of projects sourced from talent and companies in Southeast Asia. Myco will ringfence and allocate, in editorial partnership with The Bridge, a development fund of 100,000 into IP and projects signed to the slate. The aim is to deliver 3-5 original productions per year.
Myco bills itself as a Web3 video streaming, funding, production and distribution platform, while The Bridge has forged a reputation for building co-productions between Western...
- 12/6/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Industry figures come together to explore the web3 future.
Web3 can plausibly lay claim to be one of the buzzwords of 2022, even though for many it remains a confusing idea.
Web3 proponents say it represents a new, decentralised phase of the internet based on blockchain – the shared ledger systems used by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether.
In the first iteration of the internet, Web1, users navigated to individual static webpages. Today’s Web2, era is more centralised, with most communication and commerce taking place on platforms owned by powerful corporations such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.
In contrast, Web3 is...
Web3 can plausibly lay claim to be one of the buzzwords of 2022, even though for many it remains a confusing idea.
Web3 proponents say it represents a new, decentralised phase of the internet based on blockchain – the shared ledger systems used by cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether.
In the first iteration of the internet, Web1, users navigated to individual static webpages. Today’s Web2, era is more centralised, with most communication and commerce taking place on platforms owned by powerful corporations such as Google, Facebook and Amazon.
In contrast, Web3 is...
- 10/25/2022
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Production is wrapping up on The Wheels of Heaven, a dramatic thriller starring Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), produced by Dessy Tenekedjieva’s Bulgarian-based Black Sea Film and co-produced by UK’s Goldfinch, an independent production house and financier.
Ben Charles Edwards
The film, directed by Ben Charles Edwards (Quant) from a screenplay by Mike Shilliam, also stars Gary Stretch (Dead Man’s Shoes), Dessy Tenekedjieva (The Profession of Arms), Geoff Bell (RocknRolla) as well as Eleonora Ivanova and Dimitar Nikolov, featuring Lee Ryan (The Heavy), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass) and Sadie Frost (Quant). Shilliam wrote the screenplay from a story by Edwards and Tenekedjieva. Dennis Madden (Home Alone TV series) serves as Dp.
Principal photography took place in Bulgaria this past summer, followed by additional filming in Los Angeles and London. Post-production is currently underway in the UK.
In The Wheels of Heaven, a troubled young girl, Iva (Ivanova...
Ben Charles Edwards
The film, directed by Ben Charles Edwards (Quant) from a screenplay by Mike Shilliam, also stars Gary Stretch (Dead Man’s Shoes), Dessy Tenekedjieva (The Profession of Arms), Geoff Bell (RocknRolla) as well as Eleonora Ivanova and Dimitar Nikolov, featuring Lee Ryan (The Heavy), Nicky Whelan (Hall Pass) and Sadie Frost (Quant). Shilliam wrote the screenplay from a story by Edwards and Tenekedjieva. Dennis Madden (Home Alone TV series) serves as Dp.
Principal photography took place in Bulgaria this past summer, followed by additional filming in Los Angeles and London. Post-production is currently underway in the UK.
In The Wheels of Heaven, a troubled young girl, Iva (Ivanova...
- 10/19/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
UK financier Goldfinch has shuttered three of its subsidiary companies.
According to documents on Companies House, Bird Box Distribution Ltd entered a creditors liquidation and Seis vehicle Bird Box Film Development is being dissolved this week. Streaming platform Birdbox.film, a short-lived VOD service, has also gone out of business.
Phil McKenzie, COO Goldfinch, told us: “Goldfinch continues to actively invest in the future of the UK and global independent film industry and operates across a number of lines of business. However, as with most businesses, some ventures are simply more successful than others. Birdbox Distribution Ltd and birdbox.film were only start-up ventures within the Goldfinch group and as with many such enterprises they unfortunately, and after a tough couple of years, became no longer viable and ceased to trade.”
According to Companies House, Bird Box Distribution (Bbd) amassed debts of £363,227. A large part of this debt was a loan owed to a young,...
According to documents on Companies House, Bird Box Distribution Ltd entered a creditors liquidation and Seis vehicle Bird Box Film Development is being dissolved this week. Streaming platform Birdbox.film, a short-lived VOD service, has also gone out of business.
Phil McKenzie, COO Goldfinch, told us: “Goldfinch continues to actively invest in the future of the UK and global independent film industry and operates across a number of lines of business. However, as with most businesses, some ventures are simply more successful than others. Birdbox Distribution Ltd and birdbox.film were only start-up ventures within the Goldfinch group and as with many such enterprises they unfortunately, and after a tough couple of years, became no longer viable and ceased to trade.”
According to Companies House, Bird Box Distribution (Bbd) amassed debts of £363,227. A large part of this debt was a loan owed to a young,...
- 8/19/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
The company has also shut down its Bird Box Film Development arm.
Three of the subsidiary companies of Kirsty Bell’s family-owned media outfit Goldfinch have gone out of business.
Goldfinch confirmed this week that Bird Box Distribution Ltd, the company set up to assist with film sales and distribution strategy in the UK, has ceased trading.
UK streaming platform BirdBox.Film, launched in May 2020, has also been shuttered, “as it was no longer viable as a business venture for us,” according to a company spokesperson.
A third entity, Bird Box Film Development Ltd, an Seis (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme...
Three of the subsidiary companies of Kirsty Bell’s family-owned media outfit Goldfinch have gone out of business.
Goldfinch confirmed this week that Bird Box Distribution Ltd, the company set up to assist with film sales and distribution strategy in the UK, has ceased trading.
UK streaming platform BirdBox.Film, launched in May 2020, has also been shuttered, “as it was no longer viable as a business venture for us,” according to a company spokesperson.
A third entity, Bird Box Film Development Ltd, an Seis (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme...
- 8/16/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Studio Soho International has acquired worldwide rights to “A Bird Flew In” and has launched sales at the Cannes Film Market.
“Quant” producer Kirsty Bell, the founder of production company Goldfinch Entertainment, makes her directorial debut with the film, which stars Sadie Frost, Derek Jacobi, Morgana Robinson, Jeff Fahey, Frances Barber, Julie Dray, Sophie Kennedy Clark and Camilla Rutherford. It is produced by Ben Charles Edwards (“Quant”) for Goldfinch with Phil McKenzie (“Twist”) serving as executive producer.
Composed of seven interlinked narratives, the film is set in the U.K.’s Covid-19 lockdown. The entire cast and crew of a feature film are sent home – alone. Now there are only actors with no audience, production crew with no set and directors with no script. Couples fall apart, others come together, and some find they are simply alone.
The film has had extensive festival play and has been gathering accolades. Bell...
“Quant” producer Kirsty Bell, the founder of production company Goldfinch Entertainment, makes her directorial debut with the film, which stars Sadie Frost, Derek Jacobi, Morgana Robinson, Jeff Fahey, Frances Barber, Julie Dray, Sophie Kennedy Clark and Camilla Rutherford. It is produced by Ben Charles Edwards (“Quant”) for Goldfinch with Phil McKenzie (“Twist”) serving as executive producer.
Composed of seven interlinked narratives, the film is set in the U.K.’s Covid-19 lockdown. The entire cast and crew of a feature film are sent home – alone. Now there are only actors with no audience, production crew with no set and directors with no script. Couples fall apart, others come together, and some find they are simply alone.
The film has had extensive festival play and has been gathering accolades. Bell...
- 5/23/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
At the turn of the millennium, Cannes was taken over by the dot-coms. A fresh generation of technology start-ups descended on the Croisette, plastering the hotel fronts with banners and billboards and promising to revolutionize the film business thanks to this new-fangled technology called the internet. A year later, those banners were gone. The tech bubble had burst.
For Cannes 2022, replace dot-coms with crypto technology and the internet with the blockchain. Crypto and Nft-sponsored panels, parties and events are everywhere on the Croisette this year. Even the lead sponsorship of Cannes’ May 26 amfAR Gala comes from cryptocurrency exchange platform Ftx. The tech start-ups crowding into Cannes this year have new buzzwords — “Nft,” “metaverse,” “Web 3.0” — but their promise to revolutionize and democratize the movie business sounds eerily familiar.
“It does remind me a lot of the internet bubble days, which I was very close to and had a front row seat to,...
For Cannes 2022, replace dot-coms with crypto technology and the internet with the blockchain. Crypto and Nft-sponsored panels, parties and events are everywhere on the Croisette this year. Even the lead sponsorship of Cannes’ May 26 amfAR Gala comes from cryptocurrency exchange platform Ftx. The tech start-ups crowding into Cannes this year have new buzzwords — “Nft,” “metaverse,” “Web 3.0” — but their promise to revolutionize and democratize the movie business sounds eerily familiar.
“It does remind me a lot of the internet bubble days, which I was very close to and had a front row seat to,...
- 5/19/2022
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Eddie Cochran, the American rock n roll star behind songs such as “Twenty Flight Rock” and “Summertime Blues,” is getting the feature documentary treatment.
The musician, who influenced the likes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, is to be the subject of Don’t Forget Me from director Kirsty Bell, who recently directed A Bird Flew In.
Goldfinch Entertainment, which is behind docs such as Quant and Ronnie’s, is producing and launching sales at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cochran, who appeared in the the 1959 musical Go, Johnny, Go!, died in a car crash in 1960 at the age of 21 while his fiancé Sharon Sheeley, a chart-topping American songwriter who penned hits for Glenn Campbell and Ricky Nelson, and Gene Vincent and survived the crash.
Production begins next month and the producers are working closely with Cochran’s nephew Bobby Cochran, who has provided access to Cochran’s unheard masters,...
The musician, who influenced the likes of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, is to be the subject of Don’t Forget Me from director Kirsty Bell, who recently directed A Bird Flew In.
Goldfinch Entertainment, which is behind docs such as Quant and Ronnie’s, is producing and launching sales at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cochran, who appeared in the the 1959 musical Go, Johnny, Go!, died in a car crash in 1960 at the age of 21 while his fiancé Sharon Sheeley, a chart-topping American songwriter who penned hits for Glenn Campbell and Ricky Nelson, and Gene Vincent and survived the crash.
Production begins next month and the producers are working closely with Cochran’s nephew Bobby Cochran, who has provided access to Cochran’s unheard masters,...
- 5/13/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
“Game of Thrones” star Lena Headey is set to make her directorial debut on a film called “Violet,” a psychological thriller that’s in the vein of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Single White Female.”
“Violet” is based on a 2019 book by author Sji Holliday, and it concerns two solo female travelers who form an intense friendship while in a cramped cabin on the Trans-Siberian Express. But things quickly start to unravel when it becomes clear that one of the women is not who she claims to be.
Gareth Pritchard wrote the script. Production is meant to begin in October 2022.
Goldfinch Entertainment is producing and financing “Violet,” with Ben Charles Edwards and Phil McKenzie co-producing for Goldfinch and Pritchard also co-producing for his Sankara Pictures. Mark Foligno of Limelight Ctl will also co-produce.
Ed Boase and Marcus Stamps of Dark Alliance Film, which originally optioned the book, will executive produce.
“Violet” is based on a 2019 book by author Sji Holliday, and it concerns two solo female travelers who form an intense friendship while in a cramped cabin on the Trans-Siberian Express. But things quickly start to unravel when it becomes clear that one of the women is not who she claims to be.
Gareth Pritchard wrote the script. Production is meant to begin in October 2022.
Goldfinch Entertainment is producing and financing “Violet,” with Ben Charles Edwards and Phil McKenzie co-producing for Goldfinch and Pritchard also co-producing for his Sankara Pictures. Mark Foligno of Limelight Ctl will also co-produce.
Ed Boase and Marcus Stamps of Dark Alliance Film, which originally optioned the book, will executive produce.
- 3/21/2022
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Game of Thrones and 300 star Lena Headey is to make her feature directorial debut on psychological thriller Violet.
Based on the successful recent novel by Sji Holliday, the story follows two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure. As the journey continues things start to unravel – because neither of the women is who they claim to be.
Producers describe it to us as having elements of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female, while publishers have also compared it to Killing Eve.
The project heralds from UK producer-financier Goldfinch Entertainment. Screenplay is penned by Gareth Pritchard, whose Sankara Pictures (The Rise) will co-produce with Mark Foligno (Moon) of Limelight Ctl and Ben Charles Edwards (Quant) and Phil McKenzie (Twist) of Goldfinch Entertainment.
The book originally was optioned by Dark Alliance Film. Ed Boase and Marcus Stamps...
Based on the successful recent novel by Sji Holliday, the story follows two solo female travelers who immediately hit it off and decide to team up for the next leg of their adventure. As the journey continues things start to unravel – because neither of the women is who they claim to be.
Producers describe it to us as having elements of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Single White Female, while publishers have also compared it to Killing Eve.
The project heralds from UK producer-financier Goldfinch Entertainment. Screenplay is penned by Gareth Pritchard, whose Sankara Pictures (The Rise) will co-produce with Mark Foligno (Moon) of Limelight Ctl and Ben Charles Edwards (Quant) and Phil McKenzie (Twist) of Goldfinch Entertainment.
The book originally was optioned by Dark Alliance Film. Ed Boase and Marcus Stamps...
- 3/21/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club is coming to audiences in North America.
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to Ronnie’s, directed by Oliver Murray and produced by Goldfinch Entertainment, and will release the feature film early next year.
It comes after the doc premiered at Doc NYC last year and follows a UK theatrical run.
Ronnie’s chronicles the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, a poor, Jewish kid growing up in 1940s East End, London who became owner of the Soho, London night club. Musicians who have played the club include Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Chet Baker, and Jimi Hendrix, who played there the night of his death.
Murray previously directed Bill Wyman doc The Quiet One, directs with Goldfinch Entertainment CEO Kirsty Bell producing and COO Phil McKenzie executive producing. Greenwich’s Ed Arentz negotiated the deal with Abacus Media Rights,...
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired distribution rights to Ronnie’s, directed by Oliver Murray and produced by Goldfinch Entertainment, and will release the feature film early next year.
It comes after the doc premiered at Doc NYC last year and follows a UK theatrical run.
Ronnie’s chronicles the life of saxophonist Ronnie Scott, a poor, Jewish kid growing up in 1940s East End, London who became owner of the Soho, London night club. Musicians who have played the club include Dizzy Gillespie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Chet Baker, and Jimi Hendrix, who played there the night of his death.
Murray previously directed Bill Wyman doc The Quiet One, directs with Goldfinch Entertainment CEO Kirsty Bell producing and COO Phil McKenzie executive producing. Greenwich’s Ed Arentz negotiated the deal with Abacus Media Rights,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UK producer-financier Goldfinch has struck a first look deal with UK podcast creators Stakhanov, launching with missing bookie story 5 Dimes, which is being jointly optioned for production.
The idea will be for Goldfinch to develop and produce TV series and narrative features and documentaries based on Stakhanov podcasts. In turn, Stakhanov will get first look to create podcasts from Goldfinch’s productions including companion pieces to run alongside productions and long form content adapted from their documentaries and features. The collaboration also allows both companies to jointly option and develop IP.
The first piece of IP Goldfinch and Stakhanov have optioned is the article 5 Dimes by David Hill, taken from New York publication Victory Journal, in a deal secured by William Ralston, Literary Partner at Goldfinch’s new management label, The Koop.
The article charts the turbulent rise and sudden disappearance of William Sean Creighton, aka Tony 5Dimes, whose...
The idea will be for Goldfinch to develop and produce TV series and narrative features and documentaries based on Stakhanov podcasts. In turn, Stakhanov will get first look to create podcasts from Goldfinch’s productions including companion pieces to run alongside productions and long form content adapted from their documentaries and features. The collaboration also allows both companies to jointly option and develop IP.
The first piece of IP Goldfinch and Stakhanov have optioned is the article 5 Dimes by David Hill, taken from New York publication Victory Journal, in a deal secured by William Ralston, Literary Partner at Goldfinch’s new management label, The Koop.
The article charts the turbulent rise and sudden disappearance of William Sean Creighton, aka Tony 5Dimes, whose...
- 10/15/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: UK indie film and TV producer-financier Goldfinch is launching management division The Koop.
The label currently counts around 15 clients including producers, directors, DoPs, production designers, makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers and wardrobe designers and stylists. The division won’t be repping actors.
Goldfinch has set commercials producer Jacob Kamara as Commercials Partner with a focus on brand-funded creative talent and production. Will Ralston has joined as Literary Partner, while Goldfinch’s First Flights Management brand, overseen by founders Nick Sadler and Keith Kehoe, will continue to focus on emerging feature directors, writers and producers.
Goldfinch told us it is looking to hire UK managers to join the team and that it wants to partner with established small to medium-sized management companies in order to boost scale and resources.
Goldfinch’s Chief Operating Officer Phil McKenzie said today: “The Koop fits perfectly within our group – we have already been informally doing this for years,...
The label currently counts around 15 clients including producers, directors, DoPs, production designers, makeup artists, hair stylists, photographers and wardrobe designers and stylists. The division won’t be repping actors.
Goldfinch has set commercials producer Jacob Kamara as Commercials Partner with a focus on brand-funded creative talent and production. Will Ralston has joined as Literary Partner, while Goldfinch’s First Flights Management brand, overseen by founders Nick Sadler and Keith Kehoe, will continue to focus on emerging feature directors, writers and producers.
Goldfinch told us it is looking to hire UK managers to join the team and that it wants to partner with established small to medium-sized management companies in order to boost scale and resources.
Goldfinch’s Chief Operating Officer Phil McKenzie said today: “The Koop fits perfectly within our group – we have already been informally doing this for years,...
- 9/15/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent distributor WellGo USA has secured North American distribution rights for action-packed sci-fi comedy “Max Cloud.” The company plans to give it a digital on-demand release in December. A theatrical release remains a possibility, but will be determined by the state of the coronavirus-strained exhibition sector.
Rights are handled by U.K.-based Fae Film & Television, which announced the sale at the virtual edition of Hong Kong’s FilMart. The company says that while many international rights have been sold to Spi International, a handful of territories remain available, including Japan, Australia, Germany, the U.K. and China.
The film, which delves into a retro gaming era, is directed by Martin Owen (“Twist”). It stars martial artist Scott Adkins alongside John Hannah, Lashana Lynch and Tommy Flanagan.
The story involves a teenage girl who finds herself trapped in an intergalactic prison home to dangerous villains. To escape the terrifying planet,...
Rights are handled by U.K.-based Fae Film & Television, which announced the sale at the virtual edition of Hong Kong’s FilMart. The company says that while many international rights have been sold to Spi International, a handful of territories remain available, including Japan, Australia, Germany, the U.K. and China.
The film, which delves into a retro gaming era, is directed by Martin Owen (“Twist”). It stars martial artist Scott Adkins alongside John Hannah, Lashana Lynch and Tommy Flanagan.
The story involves a teenage girl who finds herself trapped in an intergalactic prison home to dangerous villains. To escape the terrifying planet,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Martin Owen’s sci-fi comedy Max Cloud has landed at Well Go USA, as the entertainment group secured the film’s North America distribution rights.
Max Cloud, from the Let’s Be Evil and Killers Anonymous director, brings viewers back to an age of classic video games as a teenager named Sarah (Isabelle Allen) finds herself living in a virtual world populated by the her favorite game’s most infamous villains and bosses. The young gamer must team up with space hero Max Cloud (Scott Adkins) to defeat the ultimate video game boss Shee (Lashana Lynch) and escape the fantastical world.
Set to star in the video game pic, written by Owen and Sally Collett, are also John Hannah, Tommy Flanagan, Franz Drameh, Elliott Langridge, Sam Hazeldine and Andi Osho.
“Max Cloud is a genre-bender in the best possible way, and it’s a treat to see Scott Adkins branch...
Max Cloud, from the Let’s Be Evil and Killers Anonymous director, brings viewers back to an age of classic video games as a teenager named Sarah (Isabelle Allen) finds herself living in a virtual world populated by the her favorite game’s most infamous villains and bosses. The young gamer must team up with space hero Max Cloud (Scott Adkins) to defeat the ultimate video game boss Shee (Lashana Lynch) and escape the fantastical world.
Set to star in the video game pic, written by Owen and Sally Collett, are also John Hannah, Tommy Flanagan, Franz Drameh, Elliott Langridge, Sam Hazeldine and Andi Osho.
“Max Cloud is a genre-bender in the best possible way, and it’s a treat to see Scott Adkins branch...
- 8/27/2020
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, China remain open.
Well Go USA has acquired North American rights from London-based Fae Film & Television Ltd to sci-fi comedy and Filmart Online sales title Max Cloud starring Scott Adkins, John Hannah, and Lashana Lynch.
Fae handles international sales and is looking to close deals in key remaining territories the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, and China.
Martin Owen directed Max Cloud, which will debut in the US on VoD in December and follows a teenage gamer who unwittingly enters a portal on her video game and lands in an intergalactic prison.
Her only hope of escape...
Well Go USA has acquired North American rights from London-based Fae Film & Television Ltd to sci-fi comedy and Filmart Online sales title Max Cloud starring Scott Adkins, John Hannah, and Lashana Lynch.
Fae handles international sales and is looking to close deals in key remaining territories the UK, Australia, Germany, Japan, and China.
Martin Owen directed Max Cloud, which will debut in the US on VoD in December and follows a teenage gamer who unwittingly enters a portal on her video game and lands in an intergalactic prison.
Her only hope of escape...
- 8/26/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, we have an exclusive clip from Black Ops, casting details from Z Dead End, a trailer for Useless Humans, and details on a new character for the Hellboy: The Board Game:
Exclusive Clip from Black Ops: Following its festival run last year (where it played under the titles Stairs and The Ascent), Black Ops will be released to the masses this month from Samuel Goldwyn Films. Written and directed by Tom Paton, Black Ops stars Shayne Ward, Toby Osmond, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Rachel Warren, and Samantha Schnitzler. Executive produced by Kirsty Bell, Phil McKenzie, Steve Mosley, and Tom Paton, and produced by George Burt and Alexa Waugh, Black Ops is out now from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Synopsis: "Follow a black ops team who find themselves trapped in a terrifying, never-ending stairwell. Forced to climb or die, the group...
Exclusive Clip from Black Ops: Following its festival run last year (where it played under the titles Stairs and The Ascent), Black Ops will be released to the masses this month from Samuel Goldwyn Films. Written and directed by Tom Paton, Black Ops stars Shayne Ward, Toby Osmond, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Rachel Warren, and Samantha Schnitzler. Executive produced by Kirsty Bell, Phil McKenzie, Steve Mosley, and Tom Paton, and produced by George Burt and Alexa Waugh, Black Ops is out now from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
Synopsis: "Follow a black ops team who find themselves trapped in a terrifying, never-ending stairwell. Forced to climb or die, the group...
- 6/12/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
“Whiplash” and “Top Gun: Maverick” star Miles Teller is set to star in a true story of a boating disaster called “Not Without Hope” that will be executive produced by NFL quarterback Russell Wilson and singer and songwriter Ciara, Highland Film Group announced Friday.
Highland Film Group is representing international sales on the film from director Rupert Wainwright at the upcoming Cannes virtual marketplace, while CAA Media Finance is handling the domestic rights.
“Not Without Hope” is based on a non-fiction book by Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman of the same name about a pair of best friends and two NFL players who are trapped in freezing water after a storm hits and their boat capsizes. Here’s the full synopsis:
Also Read: 'Top Gun: Maverick' Star Miles Teller Admits It's Hard Keeping up With Tom Cruise
Best friends Nick Schuyler (Miles Teller) and Will Bleakley, and NFL...
Highland Film Group is representing international sales on the film from director Rupert Wainwright at the upcoming Cannes virtual marketplace, while CAA Media Finance is handling the domestic rights.
“Not Without Hope” is based on a non-fiction book by Nick Schuyler and Jere Longman of the same name about a pair of best friends and two NFL players who are trapped in freezing water after a storm hits and their boat capsizes. Here’s the full synopsis:
Also Read: 'Top Gun: Maverick' Star Miles Teller Admits It's Hard Keeping up With Tom Cruise
Best friends Nick Schuyler (Miles Teller) and Will Bleakley, and NFL...
- 6/12/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Companies must pay a minimum £2,000 admin charge.
London-based content finance company Goldfinch has launched a £500,000 loans fund for British independent production companies struggling to cope with the effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
Goldfinch is offering short-term, interest-free loans, subject to due diligence.
Companies will be required to pay a minimum £2,000 upfront admin charge, which would increase depending on the size of the loan.
The fund was launched yesterday (May 13) and will be open for three months.
Goldfinch aims to ease the financial burdens and cashflow issues many small- to medium-sized indies are experiencing while production remains in near-complete stasis.
It...
London-based content finance company Goldfinch has launched a £500,000 loans fund for British independent production companies struggling to cope with the effect of the coronavirus pandemic.
Goldfinch is offering short-term, interest-free loans, subject to due diligence.
Companies will be required to pay a minimum £2,000 upfront admin charge, which would increase depending on the size of the loan.
The fund was launched yesterday (May 13) and will be open for three months.
Goldfinch aims to ease the financial burdens and cashflow issues many small- to medium-sized indies are experiencing while production remains in near-complete stasis.
It...
- 5/14/2020
- by 1101334¦Jesse Whittock Broadcast¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
UK indie producer-financier Goldfinch has launched UK streaming platform BirdBox.Film.
The platform launches with three channels of curated content for Tvod – documentaries, drama and festival favorites – with more channels due to be launched in coming months. Themes will include horror in June, shorts in July and sci-fi in August.
Movies will include James Marsh doc Project Nim, Bryan Cranston starrer Trumbo, Olivier Dahan’s La Ve En Rose, Colin Firth drama A Single Man and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Founders say that each channel with have 50 titles by summer 2020.
June 12 will see the exclusive digital premiere of the The Ascent, directed by Tom Paton, after its premiere at FrightFest 2019. For the shorts, Chris Turner’s Running Man will be first up, starring Raff Law and produced by Sadie Frost and Goldfinch.
The creators says the shorts channel “will reward the younger filmmakers who provide content, with funds to market their shorts,...
The platform launches with three channels of curated content for Tvod – documentaries, drama and festival favorites – with more channels due to be launched in coming months. Themes will include horror in June, shorts in July and sci-fi in August.
Movies will include James Marsh doc Project Nim, Bryan Cranston starrer Trumbo, Olivier Dahan’s La Ve En Rose, Colin Firth drama A Single Man and Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Founders say that each channel with have 50 titles by summer 2020.
June 12 will see the exclusive digital premiere of the The Ascent, directed by Tom Paton, after its premiere at FrightFest 2019. For the shorts, Chris Turner’s Running Man will be first up, starring Raff Law and produced by Sadie Frost and Goldfinch.
The creators says the shorts channel “will reward the younger filmmakers who provide content, with funds to market their shorts,...
- 5/12/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Financing and production group Goldfinch has launched U.K. streaming platform BirdBox.Film, a transactional video on demand (Tvod) service.
BirdBox has debuted with three channels based on documentaries, drama and festival favorites. Content available on the site includes Olivier Dahan’s “La Ve en Rose,” Colin Firth-starrer “A Single Man,” and Mira Nair’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
Goldfinch said more channels will be launched in coming months, beginning with horror in June, shorts in July and sci-fi in August.
Each channel will be supported by a premiere each month. June 12 will see the exclusive digital premiere of “The Ascent,” directed by Tom Paton, after its premiere at FrightFest 2019. For the shorts channel, Chris Turner’s “Running Man” will be first up, starring Raff Law and produced by Sadie Frost and Goldfinch.
Each channel will have 50 titles by summer, said Goldfinch. The platform added that it is focusing on...
BirdBox has debuted with three channels based on documentaries, drama and festival favorites. Content available on the site includes Olivier Dahan’s “La Ve en Rose,” Colin Firth-starrer “A Single Man,” and Mira Nair’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
Goldfinch said more channels will be launched in coming months, beginning with horror in June, shorts in July and sci-fi in August.
Each channel will be supported by a premiere each month. June 12 will see the exclusive digital premiere of “The Ascent,” directed by Tom Paton, after its premiere at FrightFest 2019. For the shorts channel, Chris Turner’s “Running Man” will be first up, starring Raff Law and produced by Sadie Frost and Goldfinch.
Each channel will have 50 titles by summer, said Goldfinch. The platform added that it is focusing on...
- 5/12/2020
- by Tim Dams
- Variety Film + TV
Following its festival run last year (where it played under the titles Stairs and The Ascent), Black Ops will be released to the masses this June from Samuel Goldwyn Films, and we've been provided with the film's official trailer as a special treat for Daily Dead readers.
You can watch a specialized (and heavily weaponized) team encounter horrors from their past on an endless stairwell in the trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Sean McGeady's review of the film (back when it was known as Stairs).
Written and directed by Tom Paton, Black Ops stars Shayne Ward, Toby Osmond, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Rachel Warren, and Samantha Schnitzler.
Executive produced by Kirsty Bell, Phil McKenzie, Steve Mosley, and Tom Paton, and produced by George Burt and Alexa Waugh, Black Ops will be released by Samuel Goldwyn Films on June 12th.
Synopsis: "Follow a black ops team who...
You can watch a specialized (and heavily weaponized) team encounter horrors from their past on an endless stairwell in the trailer below, and in case you missed it, read Sean McGeady's review of the film (back when it was known as Stairs).
Written and directed by Tom Paton, Black Ops stars Shayne Ward, Toby Osmond, Simon Meacock, Bentley Kalu, Rachel Warren, and Samantha Schnitzler.
Executive produced by Kirsty Bell, Phil McKenzie, Steve Mosley, and Tom Paton, and produced by George Burt and Alexa Waugh, Black Ops will be released by Samuel Goldwyn Films on June 12th.
Synopsis: "Follow a black ops team who...
- 4/20/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American distribution rights to Waiting for Anya, Ben Cookson’s World War II drama based on the novel by War Horse author Michael Morpurgo. A day-and-date release is planned for early next year.
Stranger Things‘ Noah Schnapp, Anjelica Huston and Jean Reno star in the pic. The plot centers on Jo Lalande (Schnapp), a 13-year-old shepherd, and a widow, Horcada (Huston), who help smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain during WWII.
Cookson wrote and directed the pic, which was produced by Phin Glynn and Alan Latham and hails from Goldfinch, Fourth Culture Films, Bad Penny Productions, 13 Films and Artemis Productions. 13 Films handled worldwide sales at the just-wrapped American Film Market.
Executive producers are Jwanwat Ahriyavraromp, Tannaz Anisi, Kirsty Bell, Adam Betteridge, Alastair Burlingham, Ekkasitha Chalermrattawongz, Julian Hicks, Geoffrey Iles, Phil Mckenzie, Greg Schenz, Prornsuree Thienbunlertrat and Paul Ward.
Stranger Things‘ Noah Schnapp, Anjelica Huston and Jean Reno star in the pic. The plot centers on Jo Lalande (Schnapp), a 13-year-old shepherd, and a widow, Horcada (Huston), who help smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain during WWII.
Cookson wrote and directed the pic, which was produced by Phin Glynn and Alan Latham and hails from Goldfinch, Fourth Culture Films, Bad Penny Productions, 13 Films and Artemis Productions. 13 Films handled worldwide sales at the just-wrapped American Film Market.
Executive producers are Jwanwat Ahriyavraromp, Tannaz Anisi, Kirsty Bell, Adam Betteridge, Alastair Burlingham, Ekkasitha Chalermrattawongz, Julian Hicks, Geoffrey Iles, Phil Mckenzie, Greg Schenz, Prornsuree Thienbunlertrat and Paul Ward.
- 11/15/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution is launching worldwide sales at Afm.
UK actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost is to make her directorial debut with an adventurous new feature documentary about Mary Quant, “the queen of the mini-skirt”.
One of the UK’s most renowned cultural figures, Quant was at the vanguard of the stylistic revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s, leading the charge away from convention and conservatism through the championing of ground-breaking designs including the miniskirt and hot pants. Quant’s designs and irreverent style were credited as critical to the development of the ‘swinging sixties’.
Here at Afm, Kaleidoscope...
UK actress and fashion designer Sadie Frost is to make her directorial debut with an adventurous new feature documentary about Mary Quant, “the queen of the mini-skirt”.
One of the UK’s most renowned cultural figures, Quant was at the vanguard of the stylistic revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s, leading the charge away from convention and conservatism through the championing of ground-breaking designs including the miniskirt and hot pants. Quant’s designs and irreverent style were credited as critical to the development of the ‘swinging sixties’.
Here at Afm, Kaleidoscope...
- 11/8/2019
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
In today’s film news roundup, rescue drama “Not Without Hope” is back in development, a “Galaxy Quest” documentary is set for release, “The Two Popes” wins another award, and Ella Joyce gets cast.
Project Revived
U.K.-based financing-production outfit Goldfinch has bought feature film rights to Nick Schuyler’s “Not Without Hope” and signed “The Fog” director Rupert Wainwright.
The project had been set up at Relativity in 2013 with Dwayne Johnson attached but fell apart when Relativity collapsed.
Goldfinch will put the film into production in early 2020. Chief operating officer Phil McKenzie is overseeing the project on behalf of the indie studio. Rick French of Prix Productions (“The True Don Quixote”) will produce, in association with Wainwright’s Adore Creative Content.
Schuyler’s story recounts his dramatic 2009 rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard 70 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico following a boating accident that left three friends dead,...
Project Revived
U.K.-based financing-production outfit Goldfinch has bought feature film rights to Nick Schuyler’s “Not Without Hope” and signed “The Fog” director Rupert Wainwright.
The project had been set up at Relativity in 2013 with Dwayne Johnson attached but fell apart when Relativity collapsed.
Goldfinch will put the film into production in early 2020. Chief operating officer Phil McKenzie is overseeing the project on behalf of the indie studio. Rick French of Prix Productions (“The True Don Quixote”) will produce, in association with Wainwright’s Adore Creative Content.
Schuyler’s story recounts his dramatic 2009 rescue by the U.S. Coast Guard 70 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico following a boating accident that left three friends dead,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Goldfinch is reaching out to games developers and wants to find 10 projects that it can adapt for film and TV. Specifically, it wants to find projects created using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine platform.
U.K.-based film and TV finance and production business Goldfinch has set out its submission policies for developers who have until end-Oct. to apply.
The company has expanded from the film business to streaming, with its own direct-to-consumer service, BirdBox, and has moved into TV with several commissions from U.K. broadcaster ITV. It is now going to be working with partners and creatives from the gaming business.
“We’re looking to expand upon the tales of compelling heroes and absorbing worlds being told within the gaming landscape,” said said Goldfinch COO Phil McKenzie. “Our desire is to turn these 10 IP’s, built within the Unreal Engine, into feature films, TV series or episodic short form content,...
U.K.-based film and TV finance and production business Goldfinch has set out its submission policies for developers who have until end-Oct. to apply.
The company has expanded from the film business to streaming, with its own direct-to-consumer service, BirdBox, and has moved into TV with several commissions from U.K. broadcaster ITV. It is now going to be working with partners and creatives from the gaming business.
“We’re looking to expand upon the tales of compelling heroes and absorbing worlds being told within the gaming landscape,” said said Goldfinch COO Phil McKenzie. “Our desire is to turn these 10 IP’s, built within the Unreal Engine, into feature films, TV series or episodic short form content,...
- 10/3/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
U.K.-based financing and production group Goldfinch Studios is going direct-to-consumer with Bird Box, a streaming service that will target specific fan groups and is scheduled to launch this fall.
“As the market shifts and changes, we want to have a big toolbox of services for the projects that come to us, to ensure they have every chance of success,” Phil McKenzie, Goldfinch Studios COO, told Variety. “This includes finance, production, facilities, and now the distribution piece through the platform.”
Bird Box will be a transactional service with some ad-supported elements, and will have a soft launch this summer. Its rollout has been made possible by Goldfinch taking on an existing but as-yet-unidentified digital platform, meaning that the billing and video technology are already in place in more than 160 territories.
The consumer-facing part of the service will focus on films, and later TV, that target specific communities and fan groups.
“As the market shifts and changes, we want to have a big toolbox of services for the projects that come to us, to ensure they have every chance of success,” Phil McKenzie, Goldfinch Studios COO, told Variety. “This includes finance, production, facilities, and now the distribution piece through the platform.”
Bird Box will be a transactional service with some ad-supported elements, and will have a soft launch this summer. Its rollout has been made possible by Goldfinch taking on an existing but as-yet-unidentified digital platform, meaning that the billing and video technology are already in place in more than 160 territories.
The consumer-facing part of the service will focus on films, and later TV, that target specific communities and fan groups.
- 5/14/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
He plays a refugee fleeing Earth.
True Blood star Stephen Moyer has signed to star in Tom Paton’s space adventure G-loc, which has started shooting for three weeks for UK producer-financier Goldfinch.
Production is taking place at the company’s own studio facility in York in northern England.
Moyer stars as a man who flees Earth through a portal called The Gate to find a hoped-for home on the planet of Rhea. Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien and Johnathan Rhys-Davies co-star.
G-loc is produced by Goldfinch’s Tom Mattinson, Alan Latham, Phil McKenzie and Kirsty Bell.
Goldfinch previously executive...
True Blood star Stephen Moyer has signed to star in Tom Paton’s space adventure G-loc, which has started shooting for three weeks for UK producer-financier Goldfinch.
Production is taking place at the company’s own studio facility in York in northern England.
Moyer stars as a man who flees Earth through a portal called The Gate to find a hoped-for home on the planet of Rhea. Tala Gouveia, Casper Van Dien and Johnathan Rhys-Davies co-star.
G-loc is produced by Goldfinch’s Tom Mattinson, Alan Latham, Phil McKenzie and Kirsty Bell.
Goldfinch previously executive...
- 3/19/2019
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Martin Owen directs sci-fi feature.
Martin Owen’s The Intergalactic Adventures Of Max Cloud, starring Scott Adkins and Tommy Flanagan, has wrapped and is being showcased by UK financing, sales and production outfit Goldfinch at this week’s European Film Market (Efm).
The project shot at Goldfinch’s York-based studio facilities and the company’s sales arm is representing the project’s UK and China rights during Efm. It has struck a deal with Flix365, the sales outfit and VoD platform, to represent rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Japan. Spi International has picked up the rest of the world.
Martin Owen’s The Intergalactic Adventures Of Max Cloud, starring Scott Adkins and Tommy Flanagan, has wrapped and is being showcased by UK financing, sales and production outfit Goldfinch at this week’s European Film Market (Efm).
The project shot at Goldfinch’s York-based studio facilities and the company’s sales arm is representing the project’s UK and China rights during Efm. It has struck a deal with Flix365, the sales outfit and VoD platform, to represent rights in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Austria, and Japan. Spi International has picked up the rest of the world.
- 2/5/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Goldfinch Studios project currently filming in London.
Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba have joined the cast of thriller Killers Anonymous from Goldfinch Studios.
The project, directed by Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil), is currently filming in London. The script co-written by Owen, Elizabeth Morris, Seth Johnson.
Matt Williams is producing for Goldfinch alongside CEO Kirsty Bell. Executive producers are Doug Urbanski, Jonathan Willis and Phil McKenzie.
The cast also includes Tommy Flanagan, Sam Hazeldine, Rhyon Nicole Brown, MyAnna Buring, Tim McInnerny, Michael Socha, Elizabeth Morris and Elliot James Langridge.
The plot revolves around the failed assassination of a Senator,...
Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba have joined the cast of thriller Killers Anonymous from Goldfinch Studios.
The project, directed by Martin Owen (Let’s Be Evil), is currently filming in London. The script co-written by Owen, Elizabeth Morris, Seth Johnson.
Matt Williams is producing for Goldfinch alongside CEO Kirsty Bell. Executive producers are Doug Urbanski, Jonathan Willis and Phil McKenzie.
The cast also includes Tommy Flanagan, Sam Hazeldine, Rhyon Nicole Brown, MyAnna Buring, Tim McInnerny, Michael Socha, Elizabeth Morris and Elliot James Langridge.
The plot revolves around the failed assassination of a Senator,...
- 7/11/2018
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Gary Oldman, fresh from his Oscar win, and Jessica Alba, who stars in the forthcoming television series “L.A.’s Finest,” have joined the cast of thriller “Killers Anonymous,” producer Goldfinch Studios said Wednesday.
The cast also includes Tommy Flanagan, Sam Hazeldine (“Mechanic: Resurrection”), Rhyon Nicole Brown MyAnna Buring, Tim McInnerny (“Game of Thrones”), Michael Socha, Elizabeth Morris (“Let’s Be Evil”), Elliot James Langridge (“Northern Soul”) and Isabelle Allen (“Les Misérables”).
The film is shooting on location in London. Martin Owen (“Let’s Be Evil”) directs from a script co-written by Owen, Elizabeth Morris and Seth Johnson. Matt Williams is producing for Goldfinch alongside CEO Kirsty Bell. Executive producers are Doug Urbanski, Jonathan Willis and Phil McKenzie.
The film enters “a world that exists beneath ours, beneath the day-to-day, the restraint and the order,” according to a statement. “For every life there is a death, and for every person...
The cast also includes Tommy Flanagan, Sam Hazeldine (“Mechanic: Resurrection”), Rhyon Nicole Brown MyAnna Buring, Tim McInnerny (“Game of Thrones”), Michael Socha, Elizabeth Morris (“Let’s Be Evil”), Elliot James Langridge (“Northern Soul”) and Isabelle Allen (“Les Misérables”).
The film is shooting on location in London. Martin Owen (“Let’s Be Evil”) directs from a script co-written by Owen, Elizabeth Morris and Seth Johnson. Matt Williams is producing for Goldfinch alongside CEO Kirsty Bell. Executive producers are Doug Urbanski, Jonathan Willis and Phil McKenzie.
The film enters “a world that exists beneath ours, beneath the day-to-day, the restraint and the order,” according to a statement. “For every life there is a death, and for every person...
- 7/11/2018
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Gary Oldman and Jessica Alba are set to star in Goldfinch Studios’ Martin Owen-directed thriller Killers Anonymous.
The Darkest Hour actor and Sin City star are fronting the feature, which has just started filming in London. The studio said it marks Oldman’s first role since winning an Oscar as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s drama.
Killers Anonymous explores a world that exists beneath the day to day, the restraint and order. For every life there is a death, and for every person there is an itch that only the few scratch; the dark voice that tells people to blow out the flame of another’s life. You might walk down a street and brush shoulders with a stranger and exchange a polite smile, completely unaware that stranger is picturing themselves stood above your bleeding body as you draw your final breath. There is a place for those people.
The Darkest Hour actor and Sin City star are fronting the feature, which has just started filming in London. The studio said it marks Oldman’s first role since winning an Oscar as Winston Churchill in Joe Wright’s drama.
Killers Anonymous explores a world that exists beneath the day to day, the restraint and order. For every life there is a death, and for every person there is an itch that only the few scratch; the dark voice that tells people to blow out the flame of another’s life. You might walk down a street and brush shoulders with a stranger and exchange a polite smile, completely unaware that stranger is picturing themselves stood above your bleeding body as you draw your final breath. There is a place for those people.
- 7/11/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Gordon Napier to receive backing from UK production house.
UK production outfit Goldfinch Studios has named Gordon Napier as the first recipient of its newly-launched First Flights initiative, which backs low-budget features from first time directors.
The venture will see the company help to guide writer-director Napier’s career transition from shorts to features. His credits to date include short 1745, which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for Bafta Scotland and Bifa prizes.
First Flights will see Goldfinch develop two projects from Napier. The company will initially back them through the development stage and will then...
UK production outfit Goldfinch Studios has named Gordon Napier as the first recipient of its newly-launched First Flights initiative, which backs low-budget features from first time directors.
The venture will see the company help to guide writer-director Napier’s career transition from shorts to features. His credits to date include short 1745, which premiered at Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for Bafta Scotland and Bifa prizes.
First Flights will see Goldfinch develop two projects from Napier. The company will initially back them through the development stage and will then...
- 6/20/2018
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
Alice Lowe among cast on sci-fi The Encounter.
Beverly Hills and Paris-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has acquired worldwide rights to The Encounter starring Alice Lowe from the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, building on a relationship that began earlier this year with the sci-fi thriller Solis.
The Encounter is a 1980s-set sci-fi drama that like Solis is directed by Carl Strathie, and takes place in a small rural town in Philadelphia, where a struggling family discovers the truth about their missing daughter through a series of frightening encounters with otherworldly beings.
The project is currently in production and stars Laura Fraser,...
Beverly Hills and Paris-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has acquired worldwide rights to The Encounter starring Alice Lowe from the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, building on a relationship that began earlier this year with the sci-fi thriller Solis.
The Encounter is a 1980s-set sci-fi drama that like Solis is directed by Carl Strathie, and takes place in a small rural town in Philadelphia, where a struggling family discovers the truth about their missing daughter through a series of frightening encounters with otherworldly beings.
The project is currently in production and stars Laura Fraser,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Alice Lowe among cast on sci-fi The Encounter.
Beverly Hills and Paris-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has acquired worldwide rights to The Encounter starring Alice Lowe from the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, building on a relationship that began earlier this year with the sci-fi thriller Solis.
The Encounter is a 1980s-set sci-fi drama that like Solis is directed by Carl Strathie, and takes place in a small rural town in Philadelphia, where a struggling family discovers the truth about their missing daughter through a series of frightening encounters with otherworldly beings.
The project is currently in production and stars Laura Fraser,...
Beverly Hills and Paris-based Cinema Management Group (Cmg) has acquired worldwide rights to The Encounter starring Alice Lowe from the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, building on a relationship that began earlier this year with the sci-fi thriller Solis.
The Encounter is a 1980s-set sci-fi drama that like Solis is directed by Carl Strathie, and takes place in a small rural town in Philadelphia, where a struggling family discovers the truth about their missing daughter through a series of frightening encounters with otherworldly beings.
The project is currently in production and stars Laura Fraser,...
- 4/12/2018
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
UK production firm Goldfinch Studios has launched a Hong Kong arm with a slate of projects including a Sergei Bodrov (Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan) martial arts movie. Goldfinch Neon is launching in earnest at this week’s Hong Kong film market Filmart. The firm is headed up by CEO Kirsty Bell (Le Mans: 3D) and Marketing and Operations Director Phil McKenzie (The Ice King) and will be run locally by Michael Leeder (Fearless), a producer and consultant who has been…...
- 3/19/2018
- Deadline
Project will be structured as a UK-China co-production.
Goldfinch Neon, the Hong Kong outpost of the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, has unveiled its debut production slate, including martial arts fantasy The Three Swords Of Master Chan, to be directed by Sergei Bodrov.
Currently in development, the project will be set in 17th Century China and East Asia. The producers plan to bring on board an international cast and structure the project as a UK-China co-production. Russian filmmaker Bodrov’s credits include Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan and Seventh Son.
Crako, which is currently raising finance, combines a heist premise with zombies and parkour,...
Goldfinch Neon, the Hong Kong outpost of the UK’s Goldfinch Studios, has unveiled its debut production slate, including martial arts fantasy The Three Swords Of Master Chan, to be directed by Sergei Bodrov.
Currently in development, the project will be set in 17th Century China and East Asia. The producers plan to bring on board an international cast and structure the project as a UK-China co-production. Russian filmmaker Bodrov’s credits include Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan and Seventh Son.
Crako, which is currently raising finance, combines a heist premise with zombies and parkour,...
- 3/18/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
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